Season 3, Episode 3: Revolutions from the Kitchen
Season 3, Episode 3: Revolutions from the Kitchen
This episode features an excerpt of a recent panel discussion “Revolutions from the Kitchen: On Technologies of Resistance and Radical Care,” which was part of the Alt_Cph20, co-produced with Salon Hysteria as part of the summer seminar series Hysterical Utopias, and curated by Ida Bencke. The conversation was between edna bonhomme, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, and Nazila Kivi on technologies of resistance and radical care. The talk is hosted by Alt_Cph20, Patterns in Resistance and co-produced with Salon Hysteria as part of the summer seminar series Hysterical Utopias.
Alt_Cph is initiated by FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design and curated this year by the Laboratory for Aesthetics and Ecology. In collaboration with a number of Danish, Nordic and International stakeholders Patterns in Resistance—in Danish: Mønstre I modstand—examines the intersections and nodes between the labor of the hand and a multiplicity of analogue and digital technologies.
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Biographies
Luiza Prado De O. Martins
Luiza Prado de O. Martins an artist and researcher engaging with material and visual culture through the lenses of decolonial and queer theories. O. Martins holds an MA from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, and a PhD from the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a founding member of the Decolonising Design collective and the research duo A Parede. Her current artistic research project, titled “A Topography of Excesses,” starts from a call to re-appropriate the concept of excess in relation to gendered and racialized bodies in the modern/colonial gender system.
Link: WEBSITE
Nazila Kivi
NAZILA KIVI
Nazila Kivi is an independent scholar on reproduction and decoloniality, editor, essayist, and co-founder of the feminist magazine Friktion. She teaches courses on gender, such as the course “From Witches to Cyborgs: Gender, Race and Resistance,” among others.
edna bonhomme
edna bonhomme is an art worker, historian, lecturer, and writer whose work interrogates the archaeology of (post)colonial science, embodiment, and surveillance. A central question of her work asks: what makes people sick? As a researcher, she answers this question by exploring the spaces and modalities of care and toxicity that shape the possibility for repair. She has collaborated and exhibited critical multimedia projects in Berlin, Prague, and Vienna. In addition to her academic interests, Edna has written for publications such as Africa is a Country, Al Jazeera, Analyis und Kritik, The Baffler, Daddy Magazine, Der Freitag, Mada Masr, The Nation Magazine, and more. Bonhomme earned her PhD in History of Science from Princeton University.
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Cartographies of Care, an exhibition by Edna Bonhomme and Nnenna Onuoha which took place at alpha nova & galerie futura in Berlin (Feb. 15–March 13, 2020)
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Thank you!
A special thanks to Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Nazila Kivi, Ida Bencke, Alt_Cph, Salon Hysteria, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.